Rail-joint.



No. 788,807. PATENTED MAY 2. 1905. J. WOLFE.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4, 190a. RENEWED SEPT. 23. 1904.

STATES Patented May 2, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WOLFE, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF THIRTEEN AND ONE- THIRD ONE-HUNDREDTHS TO JOHN C. MANNING, THIRTEEN AND ONE- THIRD ONE-HUNDREDTHS TO JOHN J. REARDON, AND THIRTEEN AND ONE-THIRD ONE-HUNDREDTHS TO ISRAEL I-IIRSCHBERG, OF CINCIN- NATL OHIO.

RAIL-JOINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,807, dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed May 4, 1908. Renewed $eptember 23, 1904. Serial No. 225,614.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OI-IN WOLFE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a combined rail joint and chair, and comprises a device so constructed as to permit the parts to be drawn up to take up wear.

A further object is to generally improve the construction of such devices, as will more fully hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a cross-section of the joint. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a suspended joint, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a supported joint.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates the rails, and 7 the fish-plates which rest under and brace the head of the rail. The fish-plates are continued to form inclined portions 7, bearing upon the top of the base of the rail, and base portions 7", which extend under the base of the rail to form a chair for the same. From the inner edge of each base portion vertical flanges 7 depend and receive between them a wooden block 8. The upper bolts through the fish-plates and rails are indicated at 9 and the lower bolts through the flanges and wooden block are indicated at 10. The inner faces of the flanges next the wooden block are ribbed and grooved longitudinally, as at 7, to firmly engage and hold the Wood.

The purpose of having the flanged halves of the chair-plate spaced apart by a wooden block is to permit them to be drawn together as the parts become worn. and this effect is permitted by spacing the fish-plates from the web of the rail, as at 11, and the bend connecting the parts 7 and 7 from the edge of the base of the rail, at 12. The wooden block also prevents the flanges breaking under strain of the lower bolts. As the joint becomes worn the parts can be tightened by the bolts, and after the Wooden block has been in the ground the dampness causes it to swell with a tightening result on the joint.

In the suspended joint shown in Fig. 2, where the rails meet between the ties, the flanges are produced at the middle of the chair-plates, so as to depend between the ties, which are indlcated at 13, with the chairplates resting on the ties.

In the supported joint shown in Fig. 3, where the rails meet upon a tie, the flanges are produced at each end of the chair-plate, so as to depend on each side of the tie, as shown.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A rail-j oint comprising a pair of plates having base portions under the rails forming a chair, and portions extending beside the web and under the head, forming fish-plates and rail-braces, and faced flanges depending from the base portions, a compressible block between the flanges, and securing-bolts through the flanges and block.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN W OLFE.

WVitnesses:

JoI-iN A BOMMHARDT, LOT'IIE NEWBURN. 

